Come and visit us during the London Design Week:

Coffee & Friends

20—26 september / 10am—7pm
8b Egerton Garden Mews
SW3 2EH

FoodMarketo is a popup café and shop offering coffee related products and workshops. FoodMarketo features objects specifically commissioned together withproducts from the previous FoodMarketo Milan (at the Salone del Mobile, 2010); the FoodMarketo London interiors are designed by Max Lamb & Lars Fridden, and their specially commisioned furniture will be on sale directly after the event. The space also include DMOLab, a showcase of the work-in-process of 3 hand-picked up-and-coming designers: Sibylle Stoeckli, Jochem Faudet and Harry Thaler.

More details and tbc events on FoodMarketo website.
See you soon!

Extract (original post on Dezeen):

Q. would you say that you have an approach to design, a methodology or a sort of an idea that you always have in your head when you approach your projects?

A. I’m always very interested on trying to find what the possibilities of the material that I’m using offer, how this could be pushed and used in different ways – I think the way something is made and the material that is used to make it is directly related to the way the thing should look. In a way, it’s a very honest piece – when you look at it you can see how it has been made. I try to do this as much as possible in my work and i try to look for this kind of solutions, because i think those are that are going to allow the final pieces to be clean and simple, work well and also be beautiful – because everything is there, it makes sense and it’s doing what it is supposed to be doing. In some ways, it’s a very old approach to design but at the same time i’m trying to find new ways of doing this traditional things…

Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents: Tomás Alonso from Dezeen on Vimeo.

* Tomás Alonso produced and exhibited this Side Table for an Apple at FoodMarketo – it appeared also at the Phillips de Pury & Company Connectors exhibition at Saatchi Gallery.

As a key idea behind their work they developped a mad scientists lab environement, where preparation area, display cabinet and lightning devices are all inter-connected with a lot of playfulness.
No wire on the floor; everything goes trough the pipes seems to be one of the main very practical feature. Details amongst others, that I really liked, the cords of the swing have been partially un-woven and re-woven on themselves – there’s no knot!

* Chin Chin Laboratories are located in Camden – the address is 49 Camden Lock Place.

** Andrew Haythornthwaite and Shai Akram began their collaboration shortly after graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2006 on the Design Products course headed by Ron Arad. Their projects have taken them to China, New Zealand and now, back to the UK.
They presented their Fruit Fishing for FoodMarketo in Milan 2010; which is based on the scientific fact that apples float and pears don’t.

Martino Gamper creates his new chairs from elements of existing ones. By deconstructing the chair he gains a new insight into its construction and use of materials which informs the creation of the new design.

* the new edition should be available on DesignMarketo very shortly, probably before the end of the week.

* Lars also designed the 15 wall shelves working on the same principles of sliding and interlocking simple wood elements – providing a functional storage solution.

** Pictures from Interior Photography

http://www.kenkirton.com/

Although, I am hesitent to call this my new website, I would prefer my new frame. There are already enough platforms where we can voice our opinions, display our work and even publish our everyday thoughts. Therefore instead of creating an exhibit of work I have created a frame, enjoy! It’s Friday.

* Ken’s work on DesignMarketo: Cook for a day, Three Boys, One Bench and An Apple a Day.

Where beats this Human Heart/ Space in Between
Exhibition runs 19/06/10 ‐ 23/06/10
The Bunker
@ The Print House
18 Ashwin street
London E8 3DL

A disused WWII air raid shelter in Dalston, East London, is the backdrop for the exhibition. Inside the passages and chambers of this dark and cavernous subterranean, 5 artists have created a spectacle of sensory and experiential overload.
Use an audio locator to spot the planes coming!

Interventions/ Newcastle University
Exhibition runs 28th June- 2nd July
The Exlibris Gallery
The Quadrangle
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU

Who owns the airspace above our heads? How can we take back control of these spaces? What is the extent of the airspace we can control?

Nelly Ben Hayoun (Interactions designer) and Dr Alison J Williams (geography researcher) met through the Interventions Project, an initiative based in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Newcastle University, UK. This venture teamed for 8 weeks designers with social scientists to develop innovative ways of commenting on their academic research.

One of the outcomes of Nelly and Alison’s collaboration is the ‘Theatre of the Air’. This project is based on Alison’s research into the geographies of UK military airspaces. These spaces are hidden zones of military control and power projection. They are used by UK military air forces to train and prepare for combat situations. The idea behind this project is to creatively use interviews conducted with a number of UK military pilots and navigators to think through how these spaces are performed. At the heart of these interviews was a concern to uncover the hidden geographies of military airspaces through discussions on how these users perceive and imagine the complex geometries of the spaces through which they fly. The research considers how this renders airspace as a theatre, both in the military and the performing arts sense. It focuses upon excavating the mechanical and human elements of aviation and how they enact individual airspaces.

The ‘Theatre of the Air’ presented by Space in Between in London 19_23 June is only one part of Nelly and Alison’s wider Interventions Project work.

The full exhibition, to be staged at Newcastle University from 28th June – 2nd July will focus on the ‘Airspace Activism’ aspect of their work. Come to see the 4 meters high windfarms!

This work develops the idea that through the use of personal wind farms, individuals can create radar white noise and prevent aircraft flying overhead, therefore reclaiming their piece of sky. The audio-locator provides an early warning device thus enabling the wind farm to be set in motion in time to deflect the incoming aircraft.

Context

This project is based on research into the geographies of UK military airspaces. These spaces are hidden zones of military control and power projection. They are used by UK military air forces to train and prepare for combat situations. One of the fascinating things about these airspaces is that they exist in four dimensions; they are three-dimensional volumes of space that can be activated and deactivated at different times. However, aviators only have two-dimensional air charts to look at to ‘see’ these spaces, so they have to be able to translate these mappings into three-dimensions in their minds in order to be able to safely fly through them.

The idea behind this project is to creatively use interviews conducted with a number of UK military pilots and navigators. At the heart of these interviews was a concern to uncover the hidden geographies of airspaces through discussions on how these users perceive and imagine the complex geometries of the spaces through which they fly, and whether they have an instinctual ability to generate three-dimensional images in their minds. These interviews illustrated how airspaces are enacted through the movement of aircraft through them. The research considers how this renders airspace as performed, with the mechanical and human elements of aviation enacting individual airspaces. The foci of this project are therefore on making these invisible spaces visible to a broad audience, to make this expert knowledge more widely accessible to a non-expert audience, and to illustrate the performances that enact airspaces.

Enacting the invisible

This project seeks to make these invisible airspaces visible. It achieves this through the construction of a vertical object that empowers us to enact control of these spaces.

During the early years of aviation aircraft flew at a relatively low altitude. However, laws existed that gave land-owners ownership of the entirety of the vertical space above the footprint of their house, including the air. This led to a myriad of problems for aviators and landowners who became locked in battle over payment for access to these spaces.

More recently, wind farms have become a contentious issue. Environmentalists either protest their building in areas of natural beauty, or cry out for their erection to reduce our dependence of fossil fuels and nuclear power. The aviation community dislikes wind farms because they create no fly-zones in the sky, because of their production of radar white noise, which prevents aircraft flying over them.

This project synthesises these ideas, proposing an activism approach the focuses upon the idea of being able to generate and enact your own airspace though the deployment of a personalised wind farm. This creates a form of mechanical imperialism, through the enablement of the control of an individual airspace. The project involves the creation of both the wind farm and an audio locator that amplifies the sound of an aircraft engine, thus developing a focus upon an augmented reality which is enacted through the enabling of the wind farm owner to hear an aircraft at distance and erect the wind farm in time to prevent the aircraft flying overhead. Can airspaces be owned and activated by the public? What is the size of the airspace you can own? How can we employ wind farms in a way that disrupts conventional understandings of their use?

* Just so that we keep your apetite high enough, we are currently working on the second opus of FoodMarketo – this time in London, during the Design Week.

** Stay in touch via this blog RSS or the newsletter; more information when the dates will be set…

* The show is on from this friday (private view by invitation) until July the 1st, 2010
** A Foundation: Rochelle School and Club – Arnold Circus, London E2 Old Street tube station, Shoreditch Overground (East London Line)

Art Car Boot Fair 2010
Sunday 6th June, 12-6pm
146 Brick Lane E1
Tube: White Chapel, Aldgate East, Liverpool Street

This Sunday, the girls are joining over sixty exciting pitches with regular booters Sir Peter Blake, Gavin Turk, Bob & Roberta Smith and Pam Hogg joined by Martin Creed, Billy Childish, Pete Fowler, Oliver Guy Watkins, Ian Dawson and Jessica Albarn, for this year’s fresh and feisty take on what is already gearing up to be the hottest day of the year! Plus! Myriad entertainments from Gabby Young, Revere, Owada, Marawa, and the ultimate fun generators The Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club! Cool cocktails from The East Room, and epicurean delights from The Bath Pig, La Grotta home made ices, Mrs Marengo’s art cakes and St. John Bread & Wine!

http://allcatsaregreyprints.com/ / http://www.artcarbootfair.com/

The 2010 Art Car Boot Fair is gearing up to be the art world’s summer playground with lots of artful dodging and weaving, bartering and frivolity than ever before and serious art bargains to boot!
New! This year! A Wrestling Ring centrepiece featuring bouts of old school wrestling interspersed with some arty in-fighting and inbetween-bout secret auction thrills as this year’s crowds snap up Lucha Libre inspired original artworks from the UK’s most famous artists, the freshest talents and the coolest trend setters. Plus we’re upping the stakes with lots of artful games and gaming.